Encyclopedia of Religion

The diversity of religion in Southeast Asia has attracted area specialists in almost all religious traditions to study the regio ...

The academic study of religion continues to be political- ly significant in the region. This is especially true of scholar- ship ...

religions paid scant attention to religious texts. This state of affairs began to change in the 1960s and 1970s as anthropol- og ...

SOUTHEAST ASIAN RELIGIONS: MAINLAND CULTURES Mainland Southeast Asia has been termed the “crossroad of religions,” for in this r ...

munities in northeastern Thailand today, the dead are cre- mated in accord with Buddhist custom, but the practice of burning per ...

sun. To this day, many peoples who have long been Bud- dhists still engage in rites that entail a dualistic conception of the co ...

dominated areas show similar concern with ancestor wor- ship. Indian influences. In those areas of mainland South- east Asia whe ...

Buddhist concepts of the vital spirit—the leikpya of the Bur- mese, the khwan of the Tai, the praluDn of the Khmer—also remained ...

Insular Asia,” Journal of Asian Studies 24 (February 1965): 283–291. A general introduction to Southeast Asian reli- gions with ...

SOUTHEAST ASIAN RELIGIONS: INSULAR CULTURES The cultures of insular Southeast Asia are made up predomi- nantly of peoples speaki ...

ognition only to Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hindu- ism, and Buddhism, with the result that in effect no tradi- tional re ...

mos that combine themes of reproduction and destruction. Among the Ngaju of Kalimantan (Borneo) creation begins when the mountai ...

Although there exists an ultimate ground of identity to all manifestations of life, the traditional view makes no as- sumption o ...

reburied in a special sepulcher or reunited in a single tomb with the bones of other members of the descent group. Often the gro ...

ways of thinking and acting continue to show remarkable re- silience and continuity with the past. SEE ALSO Balinese Religion; B ...

designed to restore lost traditions and identities by combin- ing Western and Javanist-Hindu-Buddhist values. Taman Siswa school ...

Batak, the Amboinese, the Toraja, and the Minahas—and among the Chinese throughout insular Southeast Asia, the only Christian na ...

For an overview of contemporary movements, see Robert W. Hef- ner’s (ed.) The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Cit- i ...

Gabriel M. Setiloane, himself a Methodist minister, ar- gues cogently in The Image of God among the Sotho-Tswana (Rotterdam, 197 ...

bolizes the evil of the past year.” This exactly parallels rituals farther north for “cleansing the country” in which the popu- ...